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12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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Reading Strategies
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a. Ask questions and then try to answer them, b. connect what you have read to your own life, c. skim passage for dates, names, and places, and d. scan passage for key words.
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Main Idea
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The main idea of a reading passage is its most important idea.
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Passage details support the main idea by giving more information
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Sequence of events
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The order in which things happened
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Sequence is sometimes time order or chronological order.
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Compare and Contrast
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Compare means to find the similarities between two or more things. Contrast means to find the differences
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Compare - like, same as, similar to, as well as, too, also, goth, and in the same manner. Contrast - unlike, different from, by contrast, but, however, as opposed to, and on the other hand
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Cause and Effect
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Cause is a reason something happens. Effect is what happens as a result of a cause.
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Cause-and-effect signal words: as a result, due to, reason, since, so, then, therefore.
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Prediction
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A guess about what might happen in the future
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Consider: information or clues in the passage, personal life experience and knowledge of how humans behave, whether the predition is confirmed after reading, and whether the reader needs to change a prediction
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Problem and Solutions
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A problem is a challenge a person needs to solve. A solution is an answer to a problem. A problem may have more than one solution.
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Summary
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A short retelling of a piece of writing.
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Inference
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An educated guess that readers make based on information in a passage or what they know about the world.
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Conclusion
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A reasoned judgment based on information in a passage and past knowledge
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Inductive Reasoning
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Happens when writers present an idea or theory based on their observations, and then offer facts to prove the theory.
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Example: An author may state that running shoes are only worn by adults based on her observations that everyone she sees wearing running shoes are adults.
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Deductive Reasoning
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Occurs when writers present facts, folled by a theory (conclusion) based on these facts.
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Example: An author notices that all the males in a math class have an "A" grade-point average. Jarrett is a male in the class. Knowing these facts to be true, the author can deductively reason that Jarrett has an "A" grade-point average.
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